I moved these nandina from one of the gardens and planted them around the lamppost in the front yard several years ago. They appear quite happy here.
I think we could do a little pruning this week to give this a better look. I let them grow these past couple of years so I would have plenty of foliage to work with. Now I need to form them into an attractive and compact shape around the lamppost.
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Despite the common name, it is not a bamboo but an erect
evergreen shrub up to 2 m (7 ft) tall by 1.5 m (5 ft) wide, with numerous,
usually unbranched stems growing from ground level. The glossy leaves are
sometimes deciduous in colder areas, 50–100 cm (20–39 in) long, bi- to
tri-pinnately compound, with the individual leaflets 4–11 cm (2–4 in) long and
1.5–3 cm broad. The young leaves in spring are brightly coloured pink to red
before turning green; old leaves turn red or purple again before falling. The flowers
are white, borne in early summer in conical clusters held well above the
foliage. The fruit is a bright red berry 5–10 mm diameter, ripening in late
autumn and often persisting through the winter.
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